[Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance
Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs gets instanciated from the library and then filled with some data via AS. The loaded MC contains some HTML textfields and another movieclip which loads a JPEG using loadMovie directly off-disk (it´s an exe projector). Now, once the ScrollPane is populated it takes incredibly long for scrolling and even typing few chars in the textfields tooks about 5 secs until they finaly appear. is there anything I could do to improve the performance of the Scrollpane? Or is that jsut too much data for Flash to handle? My plan B would be to break the 400 loaded MCs up into pages but I´d rather not do that. Or is there any other component that performs better and could be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Scrollpane? TIA André ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance
.cacheAsBitmap = true on a main clip holding all your 400mcs. It will eat RAM but increase scrolling performance, etc. At least it should. On 7/10/06, André Goliath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs gets instanciated from the library and then filled with some data via AS. The loaded MC contains some HTML textfields and another movieclip which loads a JPEG using loadMovie directly off-disk (it´s an exe projector). Now, once the ScrollPane is populated it takes incredibly long for scrolling and even typing few chars in the textfields tooks about 5 secs until they finaly appear. is there anything I could do to improve the performance of the Scrollpane? Or is that jsut too much data for Flash to handle? My plan B would be to break the 400 loaded MCs up into pages but I´d rather not do that. Or is there any other component that performs better and could be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Scrollpane? TIA André ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance
Before you start implementing pages, try out to load all the content into a simple masked MovieClip and check the performance. Janosch André Goliath schrieb: Andy and Eric, thanks for your responses :) Unfortunatly you confirmed what I was afraid of ;) cacheAsBitmap reveales the problem that the text fields look messy and get crippled after scrolling or even editing. A kind of draw only if neccessary would also be impossible to me since the pane is a kind of editor, and therefore I do not know what the user wants to see or edit. I would run into scrolling issues too. I guess I have to go with plan B 1/2:Implement a pageing system then,... Thanks, André -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Stone Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:05 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance That might be too much for Flash to handle. You might be able to only load the MCs that are near the visible area by making a grid and get the ScrollPane position? -A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Goliath Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:59 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs gets instanciated from the library and then filled with some data via AS. The loaded MC contains some HTML textfields and another movieclip which loads a JPEG using loadMovie directly off-disk (it´s an exe projector). Now, once the ScrollPane is populated it takes incredibly long for scrolling and even typing few chars in the textfields tooks about 5 secs until they finaly appear. is there anything I could do to improve the performance of the Scrollpane? Or is that jsut too much data for Flash to handle? My plan B would be to break the 400 loaded MCs up into pages but I´d rather not do that. Or is there any other component that performs better and could be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Scrollpane? TIA André ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance
Would be an idea, but how would I attach scroll bars/simulate scrolling to the holder mc? have a dragabble button and make it move the mc behind the mask? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of janosch Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:24 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance Before you start implementing pages, try out to load all the content into a simple masked MovieClip and check the performance. Janosch André Goliath schrieb: Andy and Eric, thanks for your responses :) Unfortunatly you confirmed what I was afraid of ;) cacheAsBitmap reveales the problem that the text fields look messy and get crippled after scrolling or even editing. A kind of draw only if neccessary would also be impossible to me since the pane is a kind of editor, and therefore I do not know what the user wants to see or edit. I would run into scrolling issues too. I guess I have to go with plan B 1/2:Implement a pageing system then,... Thanks, André -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Stone Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:05 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance That might be too much for Flash to handle. You might be able to only load the MCs that are near the visible area by making a grid and get the ScrollPane position? -A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Goliath Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:59 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs gets instanciated from the library and then filled with some data via AS. The loaded MC contains some HTML textfields and another movieclip which loads a JPEG using loadMovie directly off-disk (it´s an exe projector). Now, once the ScrollPane is populated it takes incredibly long for scrolling and even typing few chars in the textfields tooks about 5 secs until they finaly appear. is there anything I could do to improve the performance of the Scrollpane? Or is that jsut too much data for Flash to handle? My plan B would be to break the 400 loaded MCs up into pages but I´d rather not do that. Or is there any other component that performs better and could be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Scrollpane? TIA André ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance
How about doing the MM method they use in their list box? Make a single clip for each visible element. Then, when you scroll, what you're doing is swapping out the content in the movieclips... 0 1 2 3 4 You have those 5 clips right, so when you scroll down, 0 becomes what 1 was, 1 becomes when 2 was, etc. 1 2 3 4 5 That way, Flash is only drawing 5 clips, and you're just swapping data out. This is how MM does it. No smooth scrolling, but it's hardly noticeable, esp considering the performance is great. BLITZ | Steven Sacks - 310-551-0200 x209 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flashcoders- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of janosch Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:41 AM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance for a fast test, you can start an onEnterFrame when the some key (like control) is pressed, in which you simply use the mouse position to move the content mc ... But anyway, you said that writing in a textfield took 5 seconds, so you dont have to move your content mc to see whether there is a difference. Janosch André Goliath schrieb: Would be an idea, but how would I attach scroll bars/simulate scrolling to the holder mc? have a dragabble button and make it move the mc behind the mask? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of janosch Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 6:24 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance Before you start implementing pages, try out to load all the content into a simple masked MovieClip and check the performance. Janosch André Goliath schrieb: Andy and Eric, thanks for your responses :) Unfortunatly you confirmed what I was afraid of ;) cacheAsBitmap reveales the problem that the text fields look messy and get crippled after scrolling or even editing. A kind of draw only if neccessary would also be impossible to me since the pane is a kind of editor, and therefore I do not know what the user wants to see or edit. I would run into scrolling issues too. I guess I have to go with plan B 1/2:Implement a pageing system then,... Thanks, André -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Stone Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:05 PM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance That might be too much for Flash to handle. You might be able to only load the MCs that are near the visible area by making a grid and get the ScrollPane position? -A -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Goliath Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 10:59 AM To: 'Flashcoders mailing list' Subject: [Flashcoders] improving ScrollPane performance Hi List, I´m using Flash 8´s ScrollPane to dynamicly load up to 400 MCs in it. Each of the loaded MCs gets instanciated from the library and then filled with some data via AS. The loaded MC contains some HTML textfields and another movieclip which loads a JPEG using loadMovie directly off-disk (it´s an exe projector). Now, once the ScrollPane is populated it takes incredibly long for scrolling and even typing few chars in the textfields tooks about 5 secs until they finaly appear. is there anything I could do to improve the performance of the Scrollpane? Or is that jsut too much data for Flash to handle? My plan B would be to break the 400 loaded MCs up into pages but I´d rather not do that. Or is there any other component that performs better and could be used as a drop-in replacement for the original Scrollpane? TIA André ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search
